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| 100 protesters arrested at US Republican confab |
| 2008-09-03 |
| Police said they arrested about 100 people Monday after violent protests in conjunction with the Republican Party convention. "About 100 have been arrested and we are still booking in people," a staff member at the Ramsey County jail in St. Paul told AFP. "Most of them have been held for rioting." Thousands of people - veterans, grandmothers, young families and even disgruntled Republicans - marched through the streets of St. Paul, calling for the end of the war in Iraq. Trouble flared when one group split away from the beginning of the march and tussled with police, who fired pepper spray on the crowd, including at an AFP photographer. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Rioting is a felony here, I believe. You don't just brush off a felony, you could very well end up with some real hard-boys in the joint. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-09-03 10:22 |
| #3 Keep them in jail until they or their parents PAY FOR ALL THE DAMAGES as well as all of the additional police costs incurred at the convention. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-03 08:38 |
| #2 Relying upon the MSM to report on the violence at the RNC is like relying upon their role models of Izvestia and Pravda in reporting on the conflict in Georgia. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-03 08:34 |
| #1 I wonder how many it will be in the end, and how long they will have to sit in jail until their cases are called and their sentences served. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-09-03 08:20 |